Sentencing: (Contemporary World Issues) by Dean John Champion
English | June 5, 2007 | ISBN: 1598840878 | 293 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
From the Code of Hammurabi (1800 BC) to the present, Sentencing: A Reference Handbook follows the historical evolution of the process of criminal punishment, then focuses on the U.S. judicial system to show how American sentencing laws have changed in response to surges of different types of crime, or to other factors such as prison overcrowding.